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No. 3 Pueblo South Colts down Cañon City Tigers

No. 3-ranked Colts take advantage of middle quarters in S-CL win

By Brandon Hopper

hopperb@canoncitydailyrecord.com

Posted:
02/07/2014 09:35:34 PM MST

Nicole Archambeau dribbles against Shannon Patterson during Cañon City s game against No. 3-ranked Pueblo South on Friday in the Tiger Dome. Archambeau finished with 21 points in the Tigers loss. (Brandon Hopper/Daily Record)

Danielle Hanenberg drives for a layup against Pueblo South's Sissy Hall during the Tigers' game on Friday night. (Brandon Hopper / Daily Record)

The Cañon City Tigers struggled to score in the middle quarters on Friday. It's tough to beat one of the state's premier teams playing with two-quarter-long letdowns.

Jaylyn Duran led a trio of Colts in a 59-49 South-Central League win against Cañon City at the Tiger Dome.

The Tigers got out to an early lead in the first quarter, but South tied it heading to the second and held Cañon City to six points the entire quarter.

"Having anybody score 16 on us in a quarter is tough," Colts coach Shannan Lane said. "We try to keep them to under 10. ... We did a much better job."

They scored only 10 in the third, and trailed by as many as 18 in the fourth quarter before Nicole Archambeau got hot to make the score respectable.

"I'm pleased with the effort," Tigers coach Dan Heath said about his team's performance. "I would like to see us play with that consistent game that we just played against tonight."

On Deck

Tuesday: Cañon City vs. Pueblo East, 7 p.m.*

Thursday: Cañon City @ Widefield, 7 p.m.

Feb. 18: Cañon City @ Pueblo County, 7 p.m.*

Feb. 21 Cañon City vs. Pueblo West, 7 p.m.*

Feb. 25: Cañon City in first round of state playoffs, if necessary

* South-Central League game

Archambeau had nine straight points for the Tigers in the fourth to inch the Tigers within nine.

"We've got to learn how to keep a lead and keep extending and not let teams back in it," Lane said.

For Cañon City, It was just the latest loss to a top-10 team with a tolerable score. In the teams' first meeting, they were tied heading into the fourth quarter but South pulled away for a 12-point win. The Tigers are winless against the always-powerful Colts in the last seven seasons at least.

Cañon City fell to 9-10 on the season and 2-6 in the S-CL. South improved to 19-1 and 7-0.

This meeting was the last time in the foreseeable future that the teams played in a league contest. Cañon City will move to the Colorado Springs Metro League beginning in the 2014-15 school year. The teams can still decide to play non-league games against each other, something CCHS Athletic Director Scott Manchester has expressed interest in.

Cañon City has three games remaining in its S-CL schedule. It needs to catch Pueblo East or Pueblo County to finish in at least fourth place and get an automatic berth. The Tigers will play Pueblo East, Pueblo County then Pueblo West — all teams they lost to in the first go around.

"I completely believe it's good enough to beat the rest of the schedule, but like I said, we have to go do it," Heath said about his team's effort on Friday. "The time for words was done a while ago. We have to go do it."

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